WOULD YOU WRITE HORROR? IWSG Post
We are living in a horror movie.
The Russians are said to be deploying a Poseidon torpedo.
Fact is they may have already deposited one off our shores months ago
Then, there is Russia's Dead Hand:
Of course, WWIII may be on thebrink of starting:
It seems Trick or Treat has come early,doesn't it?
OCTOBER is horror month.
It is popular to be scared now.
But not this scared, right?
After all, movies, shows, and months eventually end
Do you know what galvanized President Regan
to work so hard for world peace?
A TV movie.
I have been finding it hard to write about
fictional horror,
feeling too much like Nero
fiddling while Rome burned.
Scientific studies indicate that those
who are not so empathic
can enjoy horror movies more
than those who feel more
negatively about those in torment.
What do you think?
Stephen King wrote:
"I think people do kind of gravitate towards horror stories when times are tough, and times are scary."
Have you found writing harder these days?
There is a quote from LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA:
"Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them.
But Life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves."
What do you think?
